YouTube Video search

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apify/youtube/video.search

Search YouTube for videos matching a query

via Apify

$0.0055 per recordUp to 50 queries per request

Input

A free-text query (e.g. "machine learning tutorials"). Plain terms and YouTube search URLs are both accepted.

Example search query
machine learning tutorials

Output

Each record returned by this service has the fields below. Providers may include additional platform-specific fields on top.

  • titlestring

    Video title

  • video_idstring

    Platform video ID

  • profile_urlurl

    Canonical video URL

  • descriptionstring

    Video description / caption

  • durationstring

    Length of the video

  • thumbnailurl

    Thumbnail image URL

  • viewsnumber

    View count

  • likesnumber

    Like count

  • num_commentsnumber

    Comment count

  • date_postedstring

    When the video was published (raw platform string)

  • channel_namestring

    Channel name

  • channel_urlurl

    Channel URL

  • source_ordernumber

    Rank in the result list (1 = top)

  • sourcestring

    Platform the record was extracted from (e.g. "linkedin")

  • extracted_atiso8601

    UTC timestamp when the record was produced

How to call it

Pass the slug apify/youtube/video.search as the provider field on the POST /v1/search endpoint.

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